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              <h1>Boost C++ Libraries</h1>
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              <p>Since 2005, Boost has participated in the Google <a href=
              "http://code.google.com/soc/">Summer of Code&trade;</a>,
              initiative, a program by which student developers are sponsored
              for their contributions within open source organizations
              willing to mentor the participants.</p>
              
              <p>Currently the application process begins around
              December/January by the student <a
              href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoCPrevious">
              reviewing past GSoC project ideas</a> and approaching the <a
              href="https://www.boost.org/community/groups.html#main">Boost
              developers mailing list</a> to find a mentor willing to mentor
              them and codevelop a project proposal to be submitted to Google
              for funding the coming summer. Students should expect to be
              flexible with regard to what topics and proposals mentors are
              willing to mentor.</p>
              
              <p>If you arrive to the process too late to prearrange a mentor,
              some potential mentors supply prewritten project proposals with
              C++ programming competency tests on <a
              href="https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=boost+gsoc+project+ideas">
              this year's GSoC Project Ideas page</a>. If you have in the past
              made a <b>substantial</b> contribution to a well known open source
              project, it may be possible to skip the C++ programming competency
              exam.</p>

<h3 id="GithubsforstandaloneGSoCspastandpresent">Github's for standalone GSoCs past and present</h3>
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Since 2013 with Boost's transition to git we have kept a single umbrella org on github for those GSoCs which are fairly self standing. Incremental extensions to existing libraries usually enter that library's main git repo as an experimental branch. Here are those orgs:
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<ul><li>GSoC 2013: <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/BoostGSoC13"><span class="icon"> </span>https://github.com/BoostGSoC13</a>
</li><li>GSoC 2014: <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/BoostGSoC14"><span class="icon"> </span>https://github.com/BoostGSoC14</a>
</li><li>GSoC 2015: <a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/BoostGSoC15"><span class="icon"> </span>https://github.com/BoostGSoC15</a>
</li></ul><p>
Students may find examining past GSoC source code and commit histories of use.
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<h3 id="HistoricalGSoCIdeaspagesforyears2006tonow">Historical GSoC Ideas pages for years 2006 to now</h3>
<ul><li>2015 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2015">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2014 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2013 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2013">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2012 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2012">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2011 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2011">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2010 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2010">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2009 <a class="wiki" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/soc2009">Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2008 <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer_Of_Code_2008"><span class="icon"> </span>Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2007 <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer_Of_Code_2007"><span class="icon"> </span>Project Ideas</a>
</li><li>2006 <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer_Of_Code_2006"><span class="icon"> </span>Project Ideas</a>.
<a href="https://www.boost.org/community/gsoc_2006_boost_overview.html">An overview of Boost participation in Google Summer of Code™ 2006</a>.
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<h3 id="Sponsorhips">Sponsorships</h3>
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<li><a href="imc_summer_of_code_2016.html">IMC Financial Markets, 2016</a></li>
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